The person in these chapters that I could connect the most with Chris McCandless was John Krakauer. Krakauer shows the connection by describing his own journey into the wilderness. Krakauer like Chris had family issues that were mostly focused on his father. His father had been bringing him up with very high expectations and he wanted his son to go into medicine or if that failed then he would go into law. His father pushed them to have perfect grades in school and to excel beyond just academics so that they would gain entrance to a good college. His father saw medical school as “life’s one sure path of meaningful success and lasting happiness”. This is parallel to the relationship between Chris and his father. Chris’s father strained over making Chris to go to college and then he wanted Chris to go on to bigger and better things. However both Krakauer and Chris differ from their fathers or as Krakauer puts it “I was not a clone of my father”. Instead of their fathers goals they both find their final goals to be going into the wild on some excellent adventure to prove to their self that they can. They see this as their own equivalent of something that their fathers wanted such as medical school. This key trait of both John Krakauer and Chris McCandless makes the same type of exploring nature seeking people.
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